Personal Safety While Being a Landlord

[Angie W.]

While most of us who invest in real estate (or anything really) understand the financial risks we are taking - how many of us really stop to think about the potential risk to our personal or families safety?

What steps do you take to ensure your personal safety when:

showing a house?

serving an eviction notice, or otherwise confronting a tenant?

collecting rent?

Do allow tenants to know the address of your personal home?

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt your personal safety or that of your family was at risk?

I have to admit that I gave it some thought when I first bought my rental 3 years ago. But it wasn't until everything that we have went through over the last 6 months that I really started to take it seriously.